SAN ANTONIO, TX. – The San Antonio Spurs today announced that the team has acquired guards De’Aaron Fox and Jordan McLaughlin from the Sacramento Kings in a three-team deal that also includes the Chicago Bulls, in exchange for Tre Jones, Zach Collins, Sidy Cissoko, two conditional first round picks (2025 from Chicago, 2025 from Charlotte), two unprotected first round picks (2027 from San Antonio, 2031 from Minnesota) and two second round picks (2025 from Chicago, 2028 from Denver).
Fox, 6-3/190, has appeared and started in 45 games for the Kings this season, averaging 25.0 points, 6.1 assists, 5.0 rebounds and 1.47 steals in 37.0 minutes per game. The Houston native holds career averages of 21.5 points, 6.1 assists, 3.9 rebounds and 1.42 steals in 514 career games (500 starts) across eight seasons with the Kings. Fox enjoyed a breakout year in 2022-23, being named to the All-NBA Third Team, the NBA All-Star team and winning the NBA’s inaugural winner of the Clutch Player of the Year Award. In the same season, he led the Kings to their first playoff berth since 2006, averaging 27.4 points, 7.7 assists and 5.4 rebounds in seven postseason games.
Since being drafted fifth overall in 2017 out of the University of Kentucky, only five other players have had 10,000 points, 3,000 assists and 700 three-pointers: Luka Doncic, LeBron James, James Harden, Trae Young and Damian Lillard. Fox is also one of three players in the NBA to have posted 11,000 points, 3,000 assists and 700 steals since 2017, along with Nikola Jokic and Harden.
McLaughlin, 6-0/185, spent five seasons with the Minnesota Timberwolves from 2019-24 before joining the Kings in 2024 and has averaged 4.2 points, 2.9 assists and 1.5 rebounds in 14.5 minutes in 270 career games. Originally from Etiwanda, California, McLaughlin played four seasons at the University of Southern California.
Fox will wear No. 2 for the Spurs and McLaughlin will wear No. 11.
Jones, who the Spurs selected with the 41st pick in the 2020 NBA Draft, spent his first five seasons in the NBA in San Antonio, averaging 8.2 points and 4.7 assists in 21.5 minutes in 279 games (125 starts).
Collins joined San Antonio in 2021, appearing in 196 games (63 starts) for the Silver and Black, averaging 9.7 points, 5.2 rebounds and 19.9 minutes in four seasons.
Cissoko was drafted by the Spurs in the second round (44th overall) of the 2023 NBA Draft. In two NBA seasons, he averaged 2.3 points and 1.1 rebounds in 29 appearances.
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